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Woah, 40kEUR for a fresh out of school engineer is a lot considering my zone (IT, GE, FR). Maybe in a corporation or something like that, but in startups and similars it's already a good start to have 20kEUR out of school (taxes included)

If you have a stage/intership contract it can be also less then 12-15kEUR (taxes included)

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I'm in an intership in France , and that's true , I get 15K EURO , that's the maximum salary for interns in France!

I never heard of a maximum compensation for internships...

I don't know about France but I'm sure in Italy there's a limit[1] similar to that (no more than 1000-1200€ per month) because on internship ("stage") the company is not paying a lot of taxes - almost nothing - so you can't expect to allow them to pay an intern 3000€ per month as the tax saving would be huge and they'll use crappy contract more than they're already used to do.

[1] I'm not sure it's a hard-coded limit in the labour law or if it is something more related to the fact that if the wage is "excessive" you could have problems with the tax authority.

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